1.   At the same time, private investors are being wooed to do everything from finance hardware purchases to launch e-commerce projects.

2.   Brokerages are already wooing investors with the prospect of lucrative opportunities in the booming markets in the United States and Europe.

3.   Chinese road operators are lined up bumper-to-bumper to woo investors.

4.   Dividends are the tool of choice to woo investors.

5.   Each side has frequently been sending senior executives on road shows to try to woo investors.

6.   For Lee, it is fodder for his bitter divorce and a hindrance to his near-constant efforts to woo investors for his deals.

7.   For the last few years, Mbeki has been the behind-the-scenes administrator as Mandela has greeted dignitaries and traveled the globe to woo foreign investors.

8.   He wanted to create both a place that could be used to woo potential investors and could also be made available for civic fund-raising.

9.   Higher fixed-income yields often woo investors away from equities.

10.   If local developers and government officials are wooing foreign investors with environmentally sensitive projects, they say, then environmental activists must respond by bringing in help from abroad.